- The quartet was made up of the four oldest of six total Clark sisters. Two younger sisters (Judi Clark and Susan Clark) were born in the 1930s after the widowed W.J. Bryan Clark (the Clark Sisters' father) remarried.
- A female close harmony singing quartet consisting of sisters Jean Clark, Ann Clark, Peggy Clark, and Mary Clark from Grand Forks, North Dakota. Known as The Sentimentalists while associated with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, the group was known, before and since, as the Clark Sisters.
- Not to be confused with the gospel group The Clark Sisters.
- Known for instrumental-like vocal harmonies, sometimes contributing vocals without any sung lyrics.
- Signed with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra in 1944 to replace the popular The Pied Pipers after they quit Dorsey's band to go out on their own.
- Lillian Ventimiglia (aka "Lillian Clark") became an honorary "fifth Clark Sister", joining the group for a time in the mid-1940s after Mary Clark moved to California with her husband. (Lillian later married jazz musician and Tommy Dorsey collaborator Sy Oliver.).
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